Mitch McConnell lashes out at Alison Lundergan Grimes, Greg Stumbo

5:20 PM,
Jan. 17, 2014

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U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Friday that Democratic Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes must be seen as an opponent of coal because some who support her and contribute to her campaign are against it.

In a brief interview following a speech before tobacco growers in Lexington, McConnell also attacked Kentucky House Speaker Greg Stumbo, who McConnell's campaign claimed called McConnell a "Nazi" at a Grimes campaign event Thursday.

Stumbo didn't refer to McConnell as a Nazi, but he likened the November election to the Allies' liberation of Europe during World War ...